James Debono

James Debono

James Debono is MaltaToday's chief reporter on environment, planning and land use issues, and one of the newspaper's main political analysts. Apart from blogging regularly on politics, James Debono won the IĠM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 and in 2025. Debono coordinates MaltaToday's surveys, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008. He read history and obtained his Masters' degree from the University of Malta, and in the past worked for TV production house Where's Everybody before joining MaltaToday in 2005. A co-founder of Moviment Graffitti and active in Moviment ghall-Ambjent, he served as a media officer for Alternattiva Demokratika - the Green Party.

Articles by this author
PA uncomfortable with dismantling Marsaxlokk tower in absence of alternative site for relocation
Planning
PA postpones decision on dismantling of Marsaxlokk barumbara after chair expresses discomfort that alternative site has not yet been identified
Hotelier persists with plans to knock down Palazzina Vincenti in St Julian’s
Planning
Plans submitted last week still envisage the demolition of the austere modernist building and its replacement by a 14-storey hotel despite PA’ emergency conservation order